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Film Review: The Source


Posted by safiyaoutlines on 29 Aug 2012 / 0 Comments
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I first heard about the film The Source via a Mark Kermode film review. Put simply, it is a story set in a remote North African village (the country is not named in the film). The village depends on income from visiting tourists and the there is little work for men there, unless they move […]

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How to Cheat on Your Exams: Hi-Tech Hijab!


Posted by nicole on 01 Jul 2010 / 0 Comments
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June is exam time in North Africa. With some amusement, I read a link forwarded to me from an Algerian website about young women using their Bluetooths and hijab to cheat on their baccalaureate exams.  A quick Google search proved this was a pan-Maghreb thing, as Moroccan and Tunisian media has written on the subject. […]

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Pop Meets Sufi Soul in Rajae El Mouhandiz’s New Album


Posted by malika on 22 Dec 2009 / 0 Comments
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East meets West and pop meets soul in the latest album from Dutch international music star, Rajae El Mouhandiz, released this past Saturday. But of all the words to describe Hand of Fatima, Sufi-inspired might be the most fitting. The album is a musical meander through the life and times of Rajae, a 30-year-old North […]

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